IMF Paper on Taxing Bitcoin Sees 'Quasi-Anonymity' as Greatest Challenge

- "The good news for tax authorities, and regulators, is that contrary to the vision of the original [Bitcoin] designers - a core role has emerged for centralized institutions of various kinds in the transacting of crypto assets, notably exchanges through which they are bought and sold."

- "Working in [tax administrators'] favor is the vast amount of information publicly available in unpermissioned blockchains. This provides scope for the application of techniques that have been developed for the forensic analysis of blockchain structures."

- "More speculatively, miners - who do see every transaction in non-stablecoins- might in principle be given a role in tax reporting/withholding, consistent with the general principle of tax administration favoring collection, where possible, at a relatively small number of upstream points."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/imf-paper-on-taxing-cryptocurrencies/